When did the 7 + 62 (69) weeks (483 years, in fact) start and then end, which then heralded "Messiah the Prince", as portrayed in Dan 9:25 [NASB]?

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This much written about and endlessly debated time period, in my opinion, has to be understood before we can even think about ascertaining when the "70th week" of Daniel’s famed prophecy came about, or indeed may still have to come about, which depends on whether one is a Preterist or Dispensationalist quite frankly, there possibly, but not by any means probably, being an undetermined length of time (gap) between the end of the "69th week" and start of the "70th week". So for the purposes of this Q. and A. let’s …put the "70th week" aside for the time being !!

NB:- Daniel’s "70 Weeks" prophecy, as portrayed in Dan, 9:25-27, shows that ordinary weeks cannot be meant. The language does not imply weeks of days, it actually implies weeks of years [70 x 7 (years)= 490 years] and the "day for a year" bible rule is therefore very appropriate and is the general consensus of opinion amongst the vast majority of theologians.